Bainton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Bainton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Driffield in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Driffield

• Cranswick
• Eastburn
• Hutton [Cranswick]
• Kelleythorpe
• Neswick [Hall]
• Rotsea
• Skerne
• Southburn
• Tibthorpe
• Torp
• [Great] Driffield
• [Great] Kendale
• [Kirk]burn
• [Little] Driffield

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bainton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Bainton.

Listed Buildings Near Bainton

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Bainton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Andrew - 0.15 km

Grade II

• The Old Rectory - 0.17 km
• Coach-house and Stables to the Old Rectory - 0.18 km
• Manor Farmhouse - 0.83 km
• Stables Barn and Pigeoncote to Manor Farm - 0.86 km
• Stables and Outbuildings to Former Neswick Hall - 0.94 km
• Dutch Barn to East of Outbuildings Neswick Hall - 0.97 km

Bainton Today

Today Bainton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 317 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Bainton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Neswick Hall - 1.0 km E
• Southburn - 2.8 km NE
• Bracken - 2.8 km SE
• North Dalton - 3.0 km W
• Tibthorpe - 3.0 km N
• Torp - 3.0 km N